Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1887-07-21

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deadly effect into the abdomen Of the
aged and esteemed citizen, and caused
death in a few minutes afterwards.
Dir. KenRsdy,s Office has been the
resort Of public men from every State
10 the Union for thirty years past for
both business and social intercourse.
and the death of no other citizen Of
this community would cast a gloom
over such wide expanse of territory.
The Presidents departure from the
city without making an appointment
of Postmaster in place Of Congsr whose
commission has expired has left the
many aspirants for the lucrative birth
in a state Of uncertainty and uneasi-
meas exceedingly enervatiDg and pros
trating when supplemented BY the
intensely hot weather we are now
having. The salary is IS, 10000, and
the half dozen District men who have
been working to get the place are
afraid that the delay is dangerous and
that it means the appointment of an
outsider to the position. The last
three appOintees holding the position
and dating back some fifteen years
have been from the state OF Michigan,
and it il asserted that the Postmaster
General, and Don Dickerson the
Democratic boss of the Wolverine
state are pressing the claims Of Elm
stein of Detroit for the place. Con-
siderable feeling has been worked up
over the appointment and if it goes to
a nonresident the relations between
the President and the people Of the
District will be further estranged than
ever.
The Bell Telephone people have won
another victory in the Patent Office.
The motion of Gray the rival claim
ant to allow him to amend his old
application by inserting the work "me-
tallic" before the word diaphragm
so as to form a basis for a claim to the
metallic diaphragm used in the tele-
phones has been denied by the Pri-
mary Examiner before whom the
motion was argued. An appeal will
be taken to the Commissioner in per-
son and then to the Secretary if ne
cessary. The motion was argued by
Conkling in behalf of Gray and by
Storrow for the Bell people. The
motion was denied on the ground that
it had been already decided in an
interference proceeding between the
same parties and that Gray then aban-
doned it. So far the Bell people have
been successful at every stage OF the
case in the Patent Office.
Prof. W. T. Hornaday, the chief
Taxidermist of the National Museum
has completed his work Of mounting
for the Museum eleven of the twenty
six bnfIalos secured By him during !!gS MS
range in size from an enormous bull
measuring ) feet 9 inches in height,
which is the largest buffalo ever known
to have been killed upon the praries,
to a four months old calf less than
three feet in heighth. After the work
Of preparing the specimens was COM
pleted, the entire herd were grouped
in the park adjoining the Museum and
large photographs taken OF it. Pro-
fessor Hornaday with the crops oil
assistants who accompanied him on
the hunting expedition each clothed
in the hunting outfit Of the prairles,
appear in the foreground of the pic
ture, and SO lifelike are the posture Of
the animals and SO natural their sur
roundlngs that 1t would be difficult to
convince one that the scene was not
in reality taken on the prairies and
the animals alive instead of mounted
specimens.
The remainder of the twenty-six
specimens will be sent to Museums in
various countries in exchange for
other exhibits for the museum. The
western trip alluded to was made for
the express purpose of getting speci-
mems of the Buffalo for preservation
as the race is fast disappearing from
the plains of our country.
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